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(b)

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Sovereignty-sensitive posts would include all

Principal Officials and their Deputies.

16.

How this

far from clear.

programme might be applied in practice is

But,

presumably, the CPG's expectations

include:

(a) HKG should

help in providing the information

required to reach its objectives (e.g., not

only personality data on skills and

performance but also on nationality and right

of abode);

(b)

HKG should assist in the identification of a

pool of talent from which several (three or

four) nominees could be put forward for all1

"senior" posts (to satisfy the CPG demand for

consultation);

(c) The CPG would make its own selection for

appointments to sovereignty-sensitive posts;

(a)

The

CPG would not wish to announce such

appointments till very close to 1997 (thus

reducing its need to cooperate with HKG in any

form of joint selection);

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